>apostates? If these (broad) assumptions are true, than I would >think most
>Westerners would view sorcerers with more than an average level of
> >distrust
>and suspicion. (think: obvious and vocal atheist in the midst of a >cozy
>Southern Baptist community). This would be much more than the >dismissive
I agree with him. I also think that being really an atheist is quite
inhuman. No commoner or less than supereducated, in RW, can be a true
atheist, even in China or Russia (oh-ho, do not shoot me, easterners).
So I suppose that even Sorcerers, in G, are atheist only in what concerns
their ways to do magic, not in their social and ordinary behaviour and NOT,
definetly, in the depth of their minds.
Being an atheist is a major feat, today. I suppose in the ancient RW it was
impossible, even to geniuses. In G I concede more opportunities, because a
lot of weirdness is available, but not this stuff or not completely.
IMG sorcerers are like lay members of their homeland cults and share most of the cult knowledge of their theist or westerner neighbours.
Ciao
Gian
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